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PIONEERS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS.

found on the roots of his California plants gold enough to make a watch-seal!^[1] In November 1833 a vessel en route from the Columbia to Honolulu with Douglas and Chief Factor Finlayson on board touched at San Francisco in distress; and the botanist from his 'tent on the hill at Yerba Buena' wrote to Hartnell, recounting some of his later hair-breadth escapes in the far north, sending warm regards for friends at Monterey, and expressing his hope of meeting them again — "though not, God willing, before I see the 'land o' cakes.'"^[2] He never saw either Scotland or California again; for in July 1834, during one of his solitary excursions at the Islands, he fell into a pit

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Latitude. Longitude.

Sta Bárbara (landing). 34° 23' 41" 119' 14' 0" Sta Bárbara (Noriega's house). 34° 25' 0" 119° 14' 30" Sta Inés. 34° 36' 4" 119° 52' 57" Purísima. 34° 40' 14" 120° 8' 54" S. Luis Obispo. 35° 16' 20" 120° 22' 21" S. Luis Obispo (anchorage). 35° 10' 56' 120° 19' 0" S. Miguel 35° 45' 5" 120° 29' 47" S. Antonio. 36° 0' 18" 121° 5' 1" Sta Lucía (summit) 36° 11' 49" 121° 10' 14" Soledad 36° 24' 19" 121° 11' 30" Monterey (anchorage) 36° 36' 0" 121° 44' 0" Monterey (Hartnell's house) 36° 35' 43" 121° 44' 21" Monterey (Pt Pinos) 36° 38' 30" 121° 46' 37" Monterey (Pt Carmelo). 36° 31' 40" 121° 48' 42" Monterey (North Pt Carmelo). 36° 33' 23" 121° 45' 42' Monterey (Cipres Pt). 36° 31' 47" 121° 46' 9" Monterey (S. Cárlos). 36° 32' 19" 121° 45' 33" Cerro de Buenaventura (top.). 36° 31' 32" 121° 25' 39" Sta Cruz 36° 58' 14" 121° 40' 2" Sta Cruz (mouth of river) 36° 57' 33" 121° 40' 0" Sta Cruz (Pt Año Nuevo) 37° 0' 52" 121° 41' 21" S. Juan 36° 50' 55" 121° 18' 4" Cerro del Gavilan (top.) 36° 31' 32" 121° 20' 0" Sta Clara 37° 21' 4" 121° 45' 53" S. José 37° 31' 47" 121° 48' 2" S. Francisco (Yerba Buena) 37° 48' 15" 122° 20' 27" S. Rafael 37° 58' 26" 122° 38' 27" S. Francisco Solano 38° 17' 9" 122° 18' 26"

↑ Roberts' Recollections, MS., p. 10, the writer being personally acquainted with Douglas, but not claiming to have heard the story from him. A similar rumor seems to have reached England, where it was reported after the gold discovery that flakes of gold were found on the roots of pines sent home by Douglas and others, who were blamed for not having found the gold or announced the discovery. Quart. Review, 1850. no. 87, p. 416.
↑ Douglas's Letter to Hartnell, 1833, in Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxi. 49. The letter was dated Nov. 11th, and on Nov. 25th, as we have seen, another was sent to Figueroa. Parry notes also from his letters that he anchored in Drake Bay, and landed at Whalers Bay, or Sauzalito.

[1] Roberts' Recollections, MS., p. 10, the writer being personally acquainted with Douglas, but not claiming to have heard the story from him. A similar rumor seems to have reached England, where it was reported after the gold discovery that flakes of gold were found on the roots of pines sent home by Douglas and others, who were blamed for not having found the gold or announced the discovery. Quart. Review, 1850. no. 87, p. 416.

[2] Douglas's Letter to Hartnell, 1833, in Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxi. 49. The letter was dated Nov. 11th, and on Nov. 25th, as we have seen, another was sent to Figueroa. Parry notes also from his letters that he anchored in Drake Bay, and landed at Whalers Bay, or Sauzalito.

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